Reproductive Health
Latest WHO handbook presents family planning options for women around the world
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 26th, 2007
The recently released Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers includes a chapter on fertility-awareness based methods of family planning highlighting the Standard Days Method and the Two Day Method, two family-planning methods developed by Georgetown University Medical Center’s Institute for Reproductive Health, as effective, easy-to-use and without the health risks of chemically based family planning methods such as birth control pills.
The publication, developed by the World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins University, and the United States Agency for International Development, is used by family planning providers worldwide, especially in developing...
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